1 It’s not good for water to get into stone, and yet we pay a price if it doesn’t happen.
Etymology of occurs: to run against; “to run to meet something or someone.”
2 Jünger understands the physician well: he is characterized, as he says in The Scissors, by keeping what he knows to himself; Nietzsche also understands that this is what characterizes the physician, and also what characterizes the illness the physician has to have in order to heal, what he shares with the sick people he cures.
3 She hates everything valuable, and she isn’t very valuable, but she is a me-ist. Being very valuable isn’t something you should demand of others; it’s unfair. But hating others because of your own incapacity—that is being out of line, not having learned your place; it presupposes dissatisfaction. Hence me-ism, and hence the slowness and the slowing power of me-ism: its metabolism is very slow, perfect if it learns its place.
4 Maybe we seem better than we are, but we want to be as good as we seem.
“Your true self does not lie deeply hidden within you, but immeasurably high above you, or at least above what you usually take to be your ego.”
Maybe this transcends what we seem to be, but perhaps it must have an appearance.
5 Negative closure is easier to achieve than positive closure, «it is easier to describe hell than paradise»1; when a problem is closed negatively, one problem is solved, but another opens up that one hopes to solve positively; one of the challenges is that since we know less than we don’t know (at least it seems that way for now), what we call negative is positive with respect to the fact that it is the whole (for now) that determines the point, and the point where the whole is reflected back to us with less interference.
References
- Ernst Jünger — La Tijera
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Your true self does not lie deeply hidden within you, but immeasurably high above you, or at least above what you usually take to be your ego.